<p>Sluchy, I’m sorry but that’s not me at all. I’m the guy who works 0 hours a day and gets a 92. And I don’t care, because I know how hard I worked, and I know what I deserve.</p>
<p>Erm…that’s not what I got out of your original post. I mean it sounded as if you we’re a little peeved that they weren’t on your “level”.</p>
<p>If you’re the 0-hours-a-day guy then why do you care about the others above you? Why criticize other people who are actually doing something (even if it’s cheating) when you do absolutely nothing.</p>
<p>“I guess a better question is, what do you define intelligence with? Grades? Know how? Ability to pick up knowledge? Ability to stay focused and work hard?”</p>
<p>Ability to connect seemingly different ideas. Ability to see the whole intellectual universe at once rather than just looking at the minutiae of some subject.
(In math, it’s the ability to understand what you’re actually doing when you’re solving a problem, rather than just applying some formula.)</p>
<p>No, that’s not it, you almost got it though. This is just imaginative theory I’m talking about. I just think grades come nowhere near measuring anyone’s potential, so why do we put such an emphasis on them?</p>
<p>Believe me, this isn’t a personal thing about “me wanting be higher” or “me upset that stupid people are a high rank”. </p>
<p>I am genuinely curious to what you think about grades.</p>
<p>Well, my form of intelligence is the effort of trying to strive to higher goals because that is a unique thing not many people have the courage to do. Not many people would think that maybe they have a shot at schools, etc.</p>
<p>Along with that, intelligence, to me, is applying the knowledge you know at in-depth level in which you question the problems presented.</p>
<p>That’s my two cents.</p>
<p>I don’t know what question you’re trying to ask. You originally were talking about grades, and how they don’t measure intelligence, and now it’s intelligence itself.</p>
<p>Like I was talking about in my original post:</p>
<p>An intelligent person is someone who grasps and applies knowledge faster than others.</p>
<p>A hardworking person is someone who spends time and effort grasping and applying knowledge.</p>
<p>They both lead to good grades.</p>
<p>“I just think grades come nowhere near measuring anyone’s potential, so why do we put such an emphasis on them?”</p>
<p>They measure your ability to conform and produce desired outputs. These traits are desirable in the workplace. Also, they’re numerical and it makes it fairly easy to compare people.
And they measure how well you’ve learned something so you can move on to the next level, or not.</p>
<p>Well grades like Sluchy523, are just the result of working hard to grasp knowledge and apply it. They demonstrate your abilities to do so.</p>
<p>The question your asking is a bit vague. I’m sorry for my useless posts previously.</p>
<p>Grades are a relatively accurate way of measuring someone’s potential, and your posts have proved that. </p>
<p>You yourself have admitted to being one of those guys who works “0 hours” a day and still gets As, which means you’ll be more likely to keep doing that in the future. Your placement in the 50 people in the school seems relatively accurate.</p>
<p>Halcyon is right. </p>
<p>Now listen to her and get on with your moping about how stupid the world is.</p>
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<li>Take out the plank in your eye before you remove the seck in someone elses</li>
<li>Your arrogant</li>
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<p>It’s fine, rereading my posts, it is very clear I did not express myself fully. </p>
<p>That’s why I think entrepreneurs do so well (some of them). I get my thinking from my dad, he’s an entrepreneur with several businesses. The workplace traits like learning info and producing output is useless to an entrepreneur. Their focus is creativity and innovation. </p>
<p>This topic is really helping me understand myself better. I define intelligence as goals, ability to learn quickly, and ability to be innovative and improve upon what’s learned.</p>
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It’s not just you.
This is just you.</p>
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Related:</p>
<p>[5</a> Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence | Cracked.com](<a href=“5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence | Cracked.com”>5 Unexpected Downsides of High Intelligence | Cracked.com)</p>
<p>Wow. You’re arrogant.</p>
<p>Missing the point guys…</p>
<p>Well, at one point I may agree with you, but I’ve found that working hard even if you aren’t “smart” enough is much more intelligent than the lazy “smart” person because they put in the effort. There are different types of intelligence.</p>
<p>I made up a term to describe those people a long time ago. Closeted idiots.</p>
<p>Yes, I feel the exact same way. I think I’m ranked about 12th but I see myself as the 4th smartest…</p>
<p>You guys are hilarious.</p>
<p>Truth is there are many ways of measuring intelligence. Multiple intelligences are nearly impossible to measure. Grades are only a measurement of one of the 12 main intelligences. </p>
<p>I would agree with the OP that grades are a poor indicator of intelligence, but everybody should be hesitant when it comes to judging with inadequate prior knowledge of others. </p>
<p>A person who does well in school would be considered “book smart”, a social oriented person is more “street smart”. In addition to multiple intelligences there are personality types. In the Meyer-Briggs test there are 16 types of personality configurations. </p>
<p>Intelligence and success in life are very unpredictable and history has showed us that not one single personality type is the gateway to success or intelligence. It is possible for a “street person” to be just as affluent in their life as a “book smart” person.</p>